They don't make me feel any safer

Alysn Lyons, a junior at Nottingham High School, wrote this essay for the October 19 Voices page.

Tasers and schools are two things that shouldn’t go together, but recently they have. As a student at Nottingham, I feel no safer knowing that the police officers have Tasers than I would if they didn’t. Tasers are dangerous and may require a trip to the hospital if you’re hit. I think they shouldn’t have them in our schools.